John Brien, an American web designer designed an online game to provide free rice to hungry people and to improve English vocabulary for everyone who plays it. Freerice
, a sister site of Poverty
, was started on 7th October this year. First day only 830 grains of rice were donated to hungry people but within a month 20,000 kilo grams of rice grains were donated. At present this site feeds 50000 people daily.
Playing this game is very easy. You are given an English word, and you have to answer the synonym of it from the four given choices. At first the questions are very simple. The difficulty increases with every correct answer. You score 10 rice grains for every right answer and the total rice grains scored are donated to hungry people by the sponsors who advertise on this site. Many famous International companies like Toshiba, Apple etc. had come forward to advertise on this site. They donate the required income earned through the advertisements to WFP (World Food Program) to feed the hungry people.
Many people are enjoying this game two-fold: one for improving their English vocabulary and another for feeding the hungry people. Why late? Taste the free rice today.
